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An interview with Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, answering questions from readers of the Katholiek Nieuwsblad, a Dutch Catholic weekly.
Subtitle: 1- An Islamic preacher says on the Internet: Christians deceive Muslims by building churches in the form of mosques 2- A Christian Internet site called “Wild Christianity” specializes in attacking Islam 3- Internet sites for the books and essays of: El Karadawy, Said Kotb, Ibn...
The author writes about the Virgin Mary feast which celebrates both the Virgin’s fasting and the memory of the Holy Family’s journey in the Upper Egyptian area of Assiut. A visit to an old cave that housed the Virgin and young Jesus is an essential part of the festivities.
Dr Hulsman analyses the lecture of Pope Benedict, noting that the text showed that his lecture was unfortunate but the translation made it even worse. The report notes several translation mistakes from the original German text to English. The Arabic texts were then translations of the English....
The article investigates opinions by some Muslim scholars on the impurity of dogs and the impermissibility of sculpture and statues, casting doubts on certain hadīths [traditions and sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad] banning the possession of dogs, whose saliva, according to many...
An the Islamic-Christian meeting was held in the grounds of the Islamic dialogue committee aimed exclusively at discussing current events, from September 11 up until the American attacks on Afghanistan. The chief of the international council for bringing the Islamic denominations together said that...
The article is in response to Dr. Muhammed Selim al-‘Awa´s article in al-Usbua on Islamic religious education, AWR, 2003, week 50, art. 24. Dr. Reiss gives an overview of Muslim religious education at Egyptian primary schools and disagrees with some of the conclusions of Dr. Muhammad Selim el...
In the late 1999s, President Mubarak issued presidential decree No. 453 of 1999 which orders the referral of requests for repair and restoration of places of worship to architectural administrations in local authorities. But, some people did not like this presidential decree, as if they hate to see...
The author gives examples of what he believes is external religiosity. He expresses the opinion that external religiosity is one of the consequences of “the crisis of identity” Egyptians are going through.
Metropolitan Abba Seraphim’s critique of a paper by Bishop Munīr on the relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions.

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